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Director:
Gilbert Cates
Writer:
Barbara Turner (writer)
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Release Date:
20 November 1973 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Plot:
A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer, who becomes her first love. full summary | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Waste of time and talent more (6 total)

Cast

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Natalie Wood ... Courtney Patterson

Robert Wagner ... Marcus Simon

Bruce Davison ... Jamie Patterson
Jamie Smith-Jackson ... Jennifer (as Jamie Smith Jackson)
Pat Harrington Jr. ... Frank (as Pat Harrington)
Kent Smith ... Mr. Patterson

Paul Ryan ... Bobbie
Frances Reid ... Mrs. Patterson
Mark Roberts ... Howard
Anna Aries ... Annie Simon
Steve Riskas ... Peter
Brett Ericson ... Evan
Robert Stull ... Michael
Anna Karen ... Willa
Paul Pepper ... Engineer
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Love Song (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
74 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:Not Rated | Australia:PG
Filming Locations:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA more
Company:
Spelling-Goldberg Productions more

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Soundtrack:
I Can't See You Anymore more

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1 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
Waste of time and talent, 22 January 2007
3/10
Author: xredgarnetx from Connecticut

THE AFFAIR is a very bad TV movie from the 1970s starring the then-husband-wife team of Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood as hesitant lovers. She has polio and leads a reclusive existence as a pop song writer. He's an ambitious lawyer who is very outgoing and absolutely smitten with her. Their affair, such as it is, is doomed from the start, and she knows it, but goes along with it anyway. Two things to watch for if you are trapped into watching this: Wood's Jane Fonda hairdo that is never mussed, no matter what, and a tune she sings early in this dreadful flick. She sings it for four or five or six minutes, so you know it's classic padding between commercials. It also is one of the worst songs ever written, and the woman doing Wood's singing voice should have been shot and put out of her misery. Also, keep an eye out for all the peasant tops and dresses. By comparison, Wagner looks relatively timeless, with close-cropped hair and sporting a series of classic suits.

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